![]() If school is supposed to be about preparing you for life, you just got a great education about adults who are so full of shit they’re willing to screw you over chasing ghosts of their own ignorance rather than be seen as … insensitive. Like the coins the assassins trade in in all the John Wick films, only better. Which is the most valuable cryptocurrency in their world. The people in charge get those all-important Virtue Points. And if you’re utter ignorance to the total innocuous harmlessness of the term “White Out” cost the students money because they’d already ordered the shirts, so be it. Start with the premise that if you let anyone who isn’t as wise and enlightened as you do what comes naturally, that you’ll do emotional damage to people that not even the snuggliest support animals can cure. Take the path of much less resistance by assuming everyone is offended by everything. She did what academics would rather do in 2019. Or better yet, a simple conversation with the students.īoosters: “How do you like our t-shirts?”Ĭrisis averted. To each his own.īut this could’ve been resolved with a five second Google search. Some people go home and watch HGTV instead of SportCenter. From the Jets of Winnipeg to the Heat of Miami and everywhere in between. Let’s assume she’s not enough of a sports fan to know that White Outs are a thing that’s done in arenas across this once great continent of ours. It’s the height of irony that she mentions “the innocence, or ignorance, of the speaker,” when the only one being ignorant on this is her. To right a racist wrong that wasn’t taken as racist by any living person that wasn’t Superintendent Jennifer Curtis Whipple. To correct an offense that nobody found offensive. Bud and Irene didn’t move their five kids out of the apartment in Dorchester and give me all those swimming lessons in the polluted Boston Harbor waters of Wessagussett Beach just to see the school system bow to pressure from … well, from nobody. (Credit where credit is due, TurtleboySports had this story first and the screen cap.) “The innocence, or ignorance, of the speaker does not take away from the reader or listener their hurt or pain.”Ĭurtis-Whipple said the school district has in the past supported the booster group’s efforts to raise money for high school sports, and looks forward to working with them to support female athletes “in a way that embraces everyone. Seemingly innocent words may mistakenly cause someone else harm, even though unintended,” Curtis-Whipple wrote. “While we are not suggesting this booster group had any malicious intent-make no mistake, words matter. Penn State, for example, releases an official White Out t-shirt for fans to wear each year.īut some people found the Weymouth shirts racially insensitive and took to social media to voice their concern. Similar “white outs,” in which fans in a crowd or stadium wear all white, have been used by professional and college sports team to unify their supporters. Members of the booster club advertised the shirts that read “Wildcat White Out” on Facebook over the weekend. Curtis-Whipple said the sale of the shirts is not allowed on school property. Superintendent Jennifer Curtis-Whipple said in a letter to the school community that a private booster group supporting women’s soccer created and sold the shirts without approval from Weymouth Public Schools. ![]() Be ready for Penn State’s annual White Out and Helmet Stripe Game by purchasing the official 2023 Penn State White Out t-shirt by Nike.Source – School administrators have banned the sale of t-shirts created by a booster club that read “Wildcat White Out” on school property, calling the shirts “insensitive.” You can purchase tickets for Penn State vs. The Helmet Stripe returns to Beaver Stadium in 9 days! … Be Early. Not sure what your section is supposed to wear? Check the graphic below: >įans sitting in all but two of Beaver Stadium’s sections are encouraged to wear white, with those two sections at midfield asked to wear blue to create the image of the stadium looking like one big iconic Penn State Football helmet. ![]() When Drew Allar, Nick Singleton, Abdul Carter, and the rest of the Nittany Lions storm through the tunnel, it’s expected to be a raucous atmosphere greeting a program that opens the campaign with legitimate College Football Playoff and Big Ten Championship aspirations. While the game also marks the debut of NBC’s prime time coverage of the Big Ten, Penn State fans will play a starring role by nearly whiting out Beaver Stadium. Not quite the White Out, and not a stripe out, Penn State Football opens the 2023 regular season against West Virginia in the program’s annual ‘Helmet Stripe” game inside Beaver Stadium.
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